Behind Deep Blue : : Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion / / Feng-hsiung Hsu.
The riveting quest to construct the machine that would take on the world’s greatest human chess player—told by the man who built itOn May 11, 1997, millions worldwide heard news of a stunning victory, as a machine defeated the defending world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Behind Deep Blue tells th...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the 2022 Paperback
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Chess Notation
- Prologue
- CHAPTER 1 Show Time!
- Carnegie Mellon
- CHAPTER 2 An Office of Troublemakers
- CHAPTER 3 Taking the Plunge
- CHAPTER 4 The Chess Machine That Wasn't
- CHAPTER 5 The Race for First Machine Grandmaster
- CHAPTER 6 "Knock, Knock. Who's There?"
- Intermezzo
- CHAPTER 7 First Date with History
- IBM
- CHAPTER 8 We Need a New Name
- CHAPTER 9 Bringing Up the Baby
- CHAPTER 10 A Living Mount Everest
- CHAPTER 11 Retooling
- CHAPTER 12 The Holy Grail
- Epilogue
- CHAPTER 13 Life after Chess
- Afterword to the 2004 Paperback Edition
- Appendixes
- APPENDIX A A Lad from Taiwan
- APPENDIX B Selected Game Scores
- APPENDIX C Further Reading